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Word: butted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kyser's solicitude for lackwit contestants may stem from his own difficulties in graduating from the University of North Carolina. The combined efforts of his erudite family (his cousin was dean of the Graduate School; his uncle founded the Pharmacy Department) barely managed to get him an A.B. degree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Keep It Simple | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

George Cameron, 40, struck it rich in Colorado's Rangely oilfield. After drilling 40 productive wells in a row, with an annual income of $600,000 pouring relentlessly on top of his previously oil-won millions, he settled down in Tulsa, Okla. But the new-found leisure bored him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Helen of Tulsa | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Last week, gleaming with fuchsia and olive-green paint, station KOTV held its grand opening. Swarms of prominent Tulsans were disappointed when the Hollywood stars who had been announced failed to show up. But beauty was well represented by Tulsa-born Singer Patti Page, who arrived in a Cadillac, mink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Helen of Tulsa | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

To the Detroit Free Press last week Daniel Carbone, a shoemaker, telephoned a strange story: three months before, a well-dressed couple had left 16 pairs of good-quality shoes with him to be repaired, had never returned to pay his $17.05 bill and claim the shoes. Sensing a poignant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: If the Shoe Fits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

To his Chicago Tribune sanctum, Managing Editor J. James Loy Maloney summoned his star newshen, trim (5 ft. 5 in., 107 Ibs.) Norma Lee Browning. Maloney, who thought that Christian charity was all too rare a virtue, told her to find out how rare it actually was in a huge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Woman in Scarlet | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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